1. 'With Human Health It's a Global Thing': Canadian Perspectives on Ethics in the Global Governance of an Influenza Pandemic.
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Thompson, Alison, Smith, Maxwell, McDougall, Christopher, Bensimon, Cécile, and Perez, Daniel
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INFLUENZA epidemiology , *BIOETHICS , *CLINICAL medicine , *CONTENT analysis , *COST effectiveness , *EMPATHY , *EPIDEMICS , *FOCUS groups , *MOTIVATION (Psychology) , *PUBLIC health , *STATISTICAL sampling , *WORLD health , *QUALITATIVE research , *THEMATIC analysis , *ORGANIZATIONAL governance - Abstract
We live in an era where our health is linked to that of others across the globe, and nothing brings this home better than the specter of a pandemic. This paper explores the findings of town hall meetings associated with the Canadian Program of Research on Ethics in a Pandemic (CanPREP), in which focus groups met to discuss issues related to the global governance of an influenza pandemic. Two competing discourses were found to be at work: the first was based upon an economic rationality and the second upon a humanitarian rationality. The implications for public support and the long-term sustainability of new global norms, networks, and regulations in global public health are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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